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Cold Spring School Bond Measure Moves Forward

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The bond will be used to replace the portables currently located at the entrance to campus with a new 6,000-sq.-ft. classroom and administration building, as well as fix aging infrastructure in the existing classroom buildings

Earlier this summer, the Cold walls and integrated outdoor learning Spring School Board of Trustees space, will be used for STEAM and art approved a school bond meaclasses, allowing for continued collabsure on the upcoming November baloration between classes and teachers. lot, the first of its kind in 12 years. The proposed building will be the Measure L2020 is a $7.8M bond that new gateway to the school, giving a will be used to fund much-needed place for visitors to check in before infrastructure improvements and to coming onto campus. When the school fund a new classroom building to was first built in 1889, the entrance to replace the dilapidated portables curcampus was along Sycamore Canyon rently on campus. Road, before it became a busy state

The bond measure has been in the highway. For safety purposes, a wall works for years, as the board has been was erected at some point in the ‘70s focused on replacing the two remainor ‘80s, to protect the campus from the ing portable buildings, which are over traffic; the entrance to the school was 25 years old and well past their useful moved east to the parking lot on Cold life. A third portable building, which Spring Road. However, the office and housed art classes, was removed last administration building remained in year after it was in disrepair. Recent the center of campus, causing visitors growth in the enrollment on campus to have to enter the campus before has highlighted the issue of the dilapchecking in with campus officials, idated portables even more, as the which many have considered a secutwo remaining portable classrooms, rity issue. which, in pre-COVID days, housed The new building, which will fit in the afterschool program and special architecturally and aesthetically with education, are beginning to rust and the current buildings, will improve deteriorate rapidly. campus security, and the parking lot

In 2016 the board voted to move will be reconfigured, allowing for forward with a new building to house better traffic circulation. The current classrooms and administrative offices; office space will be used to expand this new plan builds on those ideas, the library, converting the library with plans for a 6,000 sq. ft. building from a traditional book library to a to house three classrooms as well media center. Improvements to existas the front office staff, and offices ing infrastructure on the 100-year-old for school specialists. The classrooms, existing buildings include repairing which will be outfitted with the newest technology including collapsible VILLAGE BEATVILLAGE BEAT Page 444

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